diff --git a/.changeset/late-walls-cry.md b/.changeset/late-walls-cry.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c9fcb3112a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/late-walls-cry.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-elasticsearch': patch
+---
+
+Pinning version of elastic search client to 7.13.0 to prevent breaking change towards third party ElasticSearch clusters on 7.14.0.
diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/package.json b/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/package.json
index 87688e455f..2d5cabf725 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/package.json
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-module-elasticsearch/package.json
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@backstage/config": "^0.1.8",
     "@backstage/search-common": "^0.2.0",
-    "@elastic/elasticsearch": "^7.13.0",
+    "@elastic/elasticsearch": "7.13.0",
     "@acuris/aws-es-connection": "^2.2.0",
     "aws-sdk": "^2.948.0",
     "elastic-builder": "^2.16.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 3fec636e32..4faccd29a0 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2717,7 +2717,7 @@
     find-my-way "^2.2.2"
     into-stream "^5.1.1"
 
-"@elastic/elasticsearch@^7.13.0":
+"@elastic/elasticsearch@7.13.0":
   version "7.13.0"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/@elastic/elasticsearch/-/elasticsearch-7.13.0.tgz#6dcf511dfa91187e22c81e54f41f4bd0fd96b4d6"
   integrity sha512-WgwLWo2p9P2tdqzBGX9fHeG8p5IOTXprXNTECQG2mJ7z9n93N5AFBJpEw4d35tWWeCWi9jI13A2wzQZH7XZ/xw==